17 quotes
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
"It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." (p. 43)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything. (p. 175)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. (p. 208)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? (p. 279)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. (p. 99)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything. (p. 216)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time. (p. 280)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. (p. 113)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. (p. 71)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. (p. 309)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. (p. 74)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)